-PLEASE KEEP THESE 3 PAGES IN YOUR BINDER-
Prof: Amanda Coffee (Mlle. Café)
Email: amanda.coffee@dcsdk12.orgOffice Hours: Period 7, or by appointment
ABOUT ME
I was born and raised in Colorado Springs and studied French at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. I love Colorado and think it is the most beautiful place on earth. Speaking both French and Spanish, I have been afforded many opportunities to travel and these have been some of the most treasured times of my life.
I know that all of you will have to the chance to travel abroad in your lifetime. I hope that you will learn things this year that will help you in your journey.
CLASS MATERIALS – to be brought to class daily
French Binder (see below)
Paper, Pen/Pencil
French textbook and 2 Workbooks
Binder – to be prepared by Monday, Aug. 19 (10 Point Homework Grade)
Please include, in order:
- A label on the front with your name, course name (Français 1, 2, 3, 4), my name (Mlle. Café)
- Policies Sheet
- Tons of loose leaf paper
Requested: donation of box of Kleenex or 2 dry-erase markers
38792151016000GRADES
Grades are calculated on a point basis throughout the semester and are based on State and National World Language Standards found at www.actfl.org.
Students will demonstrate their understanding and abilities in 3 modes of communication:
Interpretive mode: listening to or reading a text and interpreting meaning
Presentational mode: one-way written or spoken communication in which the presenter must consider the audience (with limited opportunity for feedback)
Interpersonal mode: spontaneous oral or written communication in which 2 or more participants negotiate meaning to make sure that their message is understood
Grade Distribution: 30% Interpretive Exams and Assignments
Listening and Reading 30% Presentational Exams and Assignments
Speaking and Writing 25% Interpersonal Exams and Assignments interaction using Speaking and Writing 15% Homework/Participation
Homework is valuable for success in my class and is often required to complete in-class activities on the due date. Participation will be made up of any group work, spontaneous contributions to class conversation, or other vocabulary/grammar based activities. In case of excused absences, students have has the same number of “French Days” to complete absent work as “French Days” missed.
Exams: Tests are administered throughout each unit, are developed according to objectives set at the beginning of each unit, and will weigh more heavily in semester score. Students have 2 full weeks to complete exams missed due to excused absences.
Grades will be updated at least every 3 weeks, and for each progress report.
According to school policy, work/exams missed due to unexcused absence is not to be made up for credit.
LATE WORK
No Late Work is accepted.
If you have an extenuating circumstance that is keeping you from completing your work, please come speak with me.
TARDIES
You are expected to be in your seat by the end of the tardy bell’s ring.
If you are late, sign the tardy sheet, on the bookshelf near the door.
If you plan come into class 10 minutes or more late, please first go to the Main Office and get a pass.
Leave the pass in the tardy basket – please do not hand it to me, I am teaching.
LEAVING THE CLASSROOM
Students receive 3 permits per quarter to leave the room not during instruction time.
Students will not be allowed to get class materials from locker, car, etc. with these permits.
GUIDELINES
Be in your seat by the end of the tardy bell
Bring all materials to class
Speech and actions are: RESPECTFUL, appropriate, et en français!
Participate, participate, participate (en français)
Follow all school/district wide policies
Use Electronic Devices according to BYOD Policy
Don’t bring food or drink to class (water bottles are OK)
unreasonable way and he did not amend his negative characters. As a result, both kinds of characteristics led to his empire’s downfall. Napoleon’s domestic affairs and policies Napoleon was a remarkable politician; his early policies made his empire achieve its incredible height. But after his great success, he began to make nonsense policies because he wanted to expand his power widely and strongly. As a result of Napoleon’s endless wars, he needed much money to support his army. As we know, the…
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon was born in August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica in Italy. He was born into a family on noble Italian ancestry. Since France owns the island that Napoleon lives on he is a French citizen. In May 17, 1779 Napoleon goes to military school. Napoleon a few years later graduates from Ecole Militarie in Paris as a second lieutenant. Than in December 22,1793 Napoleon earns a promotion to brigadier general. Napoleon is made chief of the army of the interior, the promotion also…
France, the French citizens decided to replace Nicolas Sarkozy with the socialist François Hollande. The French electoral system has similarities to that of the United States. They have a bicameral legislation much like the United States. The French have a unique way in which they elect their officials though. The French government is split between three branches the executive, legislative, and judicial branch. In class we have gone over the types of democratic governments. The French democracy…
Monaco Policies INTRODUCTION: Monaco is about 3 times the size of the Mall in Washington D.C with only 1,95 square kilometers (0,75 square miles). The population size is about 31,693 in july 2000 with an average growth of rate of 0.48 percent in the same year. the Monegasque population is among the oldest populations in the world. The average life expectancy was 74.88 for men and 83 for women in 2000, indicating an overall life expectancy of 78.84 according to the nation encyclopedia…
III’s foreign policy a failure? By observing and evaluating Louis Napoleon’s foreign policy from the period of 1849-71, his aims and also the expectations of the French for their Emperor have to be considered. Most concerning for Napoleon was the wish to restore France to its years of greatness, in terms of a European power as well as international standing and prestige. By revising the territorial settlement of Vienna in 1815, it was hoped that land could be acquired and the French borders extended…
Taylor Dove 9:30-10:45 28 November 2012 Health Care Policy in the United States and France: Common Ideals, Diverging Approach Health care policy is one of the foremost issues of controversy in most modern societies across the globe today. The debate centers on the government’s role in providing health services to its citizens. No two countries in the world have a system in which their governments play the exact same part in regulating health care, portraying the vast number of opinions…
De Gaulle made it clear that he believed Africa was key in maintaining Frances’ ‘grandeur’ and this has led to the formation of often dubious family like ties. For example Franco-African summits ‘instituted in 1973’, unites the French president with African and French political leaders in an annual celebration of their ‘special relationship’, these have been viewed more as family reunions with ‘no final communiqué’.4Mitterrand, Chirac and Jospin have all made wide-ranging promises to cut off ties…
equal to that of Britain and was right - German armament expenditure was actually cute down after Munich Chapter 1- Forgotten Problem -from the appeasers point of view, they can claim that appeasement was a wise and would have been a successful policy if it had not been for the fact that Hitler was in the grip of a madman -‘The purpose of political activity is to provide peace and prosperity; and in this, every statesmen failed.’ Chapter 2- Legacy of the First World War -when the Germans put…
suggestion that in source 6 Henry and Wolsey conducted an effective foreign policy in the years 1515-25?Explain your answer; using sources 4, 5, and 6 and your own knowledge. Henry’s and Wolsey’s foreign policy in the years 1515-25 was unsuccessful therefore disagreeing with source 6. This is because neither Henry’s nor Wolsey’s aims were achieved to their full extent. Although there were successes in the foreign policy they were overshadowed in the ‘flaws in the construction’. This is supported…
of any substantial democratic ideals, the Republicans were vehemently grasping the great chain of democracy and pulling hard toward their own interests. The Federalists unknowingly sowed the seeds of democracy through fractures in their governing policies, fueling the fire for the Republican pro-democracy fight, while still constructing the beginnings of law in America. Years after the Revolutionary War had come to a conclusion, tensions were still flaring between the British and Americans, due…